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One day after the initial release of Chrome, Google's new browser is one of the hot topics on the Web. As usual when Google releases something new, you can hear many voices hail out loud, that the world is going to be a better place from now on.

Fortunately, there are also critical voices from people who dig a little deeper and don't believe that Google does everything out of pure altruism. Labeling them as conspiracy theorists may be fun for Google employees, but it shows how serious they are taking their users' privacy concerns.

Privacy International (PI) is a London based human rights group concerned with surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI investigated privacy practices of key Internet based companies for six month for their A Race to the Bottom report.

According to the Interim Results Google is the worst threat to privacy of the search, email, e-commerce and social networking sites they inspected.

Google was the only company assessed as Hostile to Privacy. The justification reads as follows:

I wonder why people don't care about privacy anymore or is it just the 15 seconds of fame you get when someone visits your MyBlogLog community or even your website? Many sites use a widget provided by MyBlogLog that shows their recent visitors who have the necessary MyBlogLog cookie saved on their computers.

From an SEO point of view this is just another method to gain some attraction. That's why many people use avatars of barely dressed women with big tits or used animated gifs when they were still allowed.

Google owns about 50% of the search engine market, stores user data from all of its programs and maintains records on them. What does Google do with these data and does Google care about privacy?

Do you think Google is concerned about our privacy? Watch this video based on facts from the book The Google Story by David A. Vise. Wonder how long this will be available on YouTube.

Via John Chow dot Com.